Thank you all for attending our hedge fund awards on 29 May. I think we can all agree that the evening was a huge success with 250 guests and nine happy winners who fully deserved their awards for navigating the tricky markets of 2008 and early 2009. The full list of winners and nominees are below.

We would especially like to thank our sponsors for making this event possible and the World Food Program for participating in the evening. Full details on the charity contribution will be announced at a later stage.

Nominees to the Asian Masters of Hedge Awards were selected through voting by an independent panel of judges, from a working list of funds reporting to the Eurekahedge databases. All Asian hedge funds listed with Eurekahedge and operating as at the end of March 2009 were eligible for nomination. A master file of all eligible funds for each of the award categories (according to their regional/strategic mandates) was compiled and circulated among the judges to facilitate nomination for the awards (note: consequently, it is not unlikely that the same fund would be nominated for multiple awards).

Once the votes were collated and the list of nominees finalised, the winners were selected by the panel of judges, weighing in on both quantitative and qualitative aspects of the funds in question. The quantitative discussion, while mainly based on 2008 performance, also evaluates 1Q2009 risk/return metrics, on grounds of consistency in fund performance.

The selection of nominees and winners was entirely under the remit of the panel of judges, and the role of Eurekahedge in this endeavour was limited to supplying data and moderating the discussion.

Best Asian Other Strategies Hedge FundInvesting in Asia Pacific (and all regions within). Includes the following strategies: arbitrage,distressed debt, event-driven, fixed income and relative value; all judged on their own merits vstheir peers and not across strategies

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